$BTC #AppleCryptoUpdate Apple has surrendered. Yes, exactly. The ultimate fortress of control from Cupertino over your apps and transactions has developed a crack. And that crack is cryptocurrency.
On April 30, 2023, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered that Apple must stop harassing developers and loosen the anti-cryptocurrency noose. Reason? The court found that Apple intentionally violated the 2021 antitrust regulation. That means it didn’t just misunderstand – it deliberately pretended that NFTs and blockchain were like Bitcoin in 2012: fashionable, but not serious.
And now – attention!
Apple can no longer prohibit developers from providing external links to crypto payments and NFT platforms. Now you can no longer buy digital monkeys and swords for the Metaverse via Apple Pay, but directly. Without a 30% tax!
Some numbers. You can't go without them.
• App Store "tax" – 30% on every transaction.
• The NFT market (despite the crypto winter) was estimated at $12.6 billion in 2023.
• Mobile games with Web3 – potential of over $60 billion if Apple really lifts all restrictions.
• Only Epic Games lost tens of millions due to lack of access to iOS.
And now, as the Web3 analyst Xero said (by the way, he has 50,000 followers, which means he can't lie):
"This is very optimistic for mobile crypto games and apps."
And the CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, who previously referred to Apple as "dictators of the App Store," is now offering a truce. He says he will bring Fortnite back if Apple implements human changes globally. Touching.
What does this mean?
Web3 is now not just surviving on the iPhone – it is pushing forward.
There is no longer a need to complicate things.